LAST NIGH'S TELEGRAMS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 13394, 30 May 1914, Page 7

LAST NIGH'S TELEGRAMS.

: (Per Press Association.) WEI/LJXUTOX ■. ' |h»i . :h ,rM.. TheV Key. D. ( C. Batas. Government meteorologist, is. a.- passenger fo:; Sydney by the Maunganui. \\? wijl attend a fconferh)oc with the .Commonwealth j meteorologist and wire'.es authorities regarditig the establishment. ffVi inore complete system of wanthn- n.-porting by wireless messages from an d to ships. Mr B l .* V. Pemberton* will act us in^tcorologUt in Mr Bates's absence. • OHRISTCHURCH. ; last nightMr »S. .Sanndcrs Mill retii-e from the position of editor of the Lyttelton THmes on Jnnc.3, he \vill ' t:e sucr^edeH by Mr M. jkeadirig. >ir* Kdward Sounders, who has boen «ssi>ciaic editor, of the paper dn ring 'tho last fiv? years, will tak« the position of chief 01 stall. A jpSiinaman named Ah Mavi-, alias Jo MawV was ;irrest«d ' t-o-night' by Detectives Ward and Gibson on a charge of selling opium. ,. An opium outfit was found oii accTisedfj* premises, Also- a quantity of the driiisr. , - ROTORUA, last, night. A. fact, wliich is interestihe in view of thp present discussion on the malnutrition of children was mentioned a{ the annual meeting of the local brnnph of the Society for the Health of Women and Children— that Rotorua was the first bi'aiicli 'to obtain permission for a Plunket nurse to give lessons on hygiene t<> senior girls in the schools of the district. Dr. Bertram stated that out of all the territorial*? he had examined only one' had a. nerf r-ct - ret. of teeth." ' / DUNKDIN. last night. A ballot of the punodin and Subm4)a.n Drivers'. Union bus just been taken on the , question (if whether the vrtion should contirive its ainliation with *hf United Federation of Labor, and the Social Democratic party- The ballot resulted as follows : F"r continuance of affiliation 30, airainst 63. /